Sancho's Villa future of no interest to Emery
Unai Emery says it is not the time to speak about Jadon Sancho's future with Aston Villa as it prepares to face Bologna in the second leg of their UEFA Europa League quarter-final.
Sancho joined Villa on loan from Manchester United at the start of the season, despite this being his final campaign under contract at Old Trafford.
With the winger set to become a free agent in June, Borussia Dortmund's managing director Lars Ricken said his club was exploring the chance to take him back to Germany's top flight.
Having struggled to make his mark with either United or former loan club Chelsea, Sancho has made 31 appearances for Villa, but 14 of those have come from the bench.
In his 1,520 minutes played this season, Sancho has only scored one goal and supplied three assists, while he missed Villa's past two matches, including a 3-1 away win in the first leg against Bologna, with a shoulder injury.
"We are focused 100 per cent, collectively and individually. To speak about the future now does not make sense," Emery said when asked about Sancho's future.
"We spoke a lot during the season with him, about his task with us, how we need his performances, his qualities, but now it is about tomorrow.
"He is coming back. He is a fantastic player and he needs to be consistent. He has been demanding and he adapted to our structure.
"It is a pity in the last two weeks he has been injured, because he finished before the break playing fantastically."
Emery was also asked about goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez, who was forced to withdraw from the team for the 1-1 draw with Nottingham Forest after sustaining a calf injury in the warm-up.
The Argentina international should be available on Friday (AEST), but with Emery being impressed by the performance of stand-in Marco Bizot, he has a fight on his hands to start.
"He is a fantastic goalkeeper, a fantastic guy, he is ready. He is performing amazingly and we are very proud of him," Emery said of the FIFA World Cup winner.
"Every day we are praying to have everybody available to play. When something happens in the last minute, like Sunday, wow, how well Marco responded.
"Today he [Martinez] trained with us. As normal, he is going to be available for tomorrow and tomorrow we will decide."
